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You know when you're reading and all these things are happening and they don't make sense and then suddenly everything comes together in one glorious moment and it's beautiful? These books have that.
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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Mitch Albom (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 791,225 ratings
score: 273,
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The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1)
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Brent Weeks (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 175,759 ratings
score: 195,
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We Were Liars
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E. Lockhart (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 1,357,041 ratings
score: 193,
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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
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4.20 avg rating — 715,143 ratings
score: 185,
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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads Author)
4.52 avg rating — 1,064,805 ratings
score: 182,
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
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4.58 avg rating — 4,746,482 ratings
score: 179,
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The Hours
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Michael Cunningham (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 147,754 ratings
score: 171,
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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4.24 avg rating — 1,971,034 ratings
score: 168,
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Looking for Alaska
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 1,729,997 ratings
score: 166,
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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4.28 avg rating — 324,028 ratings
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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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4.35 avg rating — 4,076,009 ratings
score: 160,
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The False Prince (Ascendance, #1)
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Jennifer A. Nielsen (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 107,931 ratings
score: 154,
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 147,596 ratings
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Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
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Sarah J. Maas (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 2,287,324 ratings
score: 99,
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K-PAX The Trilogy (K-PAX, #1-3)
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4.13 avg rating — 1,407 ratings
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Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 931,781 ratings
score: 97,
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Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
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Timothy Zahn (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 101,454 ratings
score: 96,
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The Solitaire Mystery
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4.18 avg rating — 27,092 ratings
score: 93,
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The Blind Assassin
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 162,364 ratings
score: 92,
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City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)
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Tad Williams (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 28,631 ratings
score: 91,
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 3,409,486 ratings
score: 90,
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A Song of Ice and Fire (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1-4)
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4.63 avg rating — 48,113 ratings
score: 89,
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The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)
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score: 87,
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Cloud Atlas
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4.01 avg rating — 265,019 ratings
score: 85,
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The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 272,656 ratings
score: 84,
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The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
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Lemony Snicket (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 564,127 ratings
score: 83,
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The Ghosts of Heaven
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3.72 avg rating — 3,784 ratings
score: 81,
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Where Things Come Back
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3.80 avg rating — 21,280 ratings
score: 80,
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A Tale of Two Cities / Great Expectations
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4.02 avg rating — 17,504 ratings
score: 79,
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The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 203,212 ratings
score: 78,
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Seraphina (Seraphina, #1)
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Rachel Hartman (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 89,061 ratings
score: 77,
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Shadow Scale (Seraphina, #2)
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Rachel Hartman (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 21,924 ratings
score: 76,
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Redwall (Redwall, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 127,797 ratings
score: 74,
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 1,989,917 ratings
score: 73,
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The Thirteenth Tale
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Diane Setterfield (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 324,726 ratings
score: 72,
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 2,763,927 ratings
score: 70,
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Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 29,463 ratings
score: 67,
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The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
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4.03 avg rating — 56,384 ratings
score: 65,
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Bleak House
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4.02 avg rating — 113,141 ratings
score: 64,
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 433,408 ratings
score: 63,
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The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #1)
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Michael Scott (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 166,464 ratings
score: 61,
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I'll Give You the Sun
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Jandy Nelson (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 355,514 ratings
score: 60,
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Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey, #6)
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4.14 avg rating — 33,143 ratings
score: 59,
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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4.14 avg rating — 310,595 ratings
score: 58,
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1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
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3.95 avg rating — 336,164 ratings
score: 57,
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Holes (Holes, #1)
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Louis Sachar (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 1,347,373 ratings
score: 56,
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 2,834,272 ratings
score: 55,
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Time in a Bottle: The Resonance
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Raymond Rice (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 53,
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Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
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Peter F. Hamilton (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 53,276 ratings
score: 52,
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